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July 9, 2009
The latest news from the UW
Etc: News & notes from around campus
CHAPTER TOPS CHARTS: The UW chapter of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) has won the Chapter of the Year Award in the 10-19 member division from the national organization.
Technology resources to be consolidated on ‘IT Connect’ Web page
UW Technology has launched a new Web site, IT Connect (<A href="http://itconnect.
Straighten up and fly right: Moths benefit more from flexible wings than rigid
Most scientists who create models trying to understand the mechanics and aerodynamics of insect flight have assumed that insect wings are relatively rigid as they flap.
Finding fear: Neuroscientists locate where it is processed in mammalian brain
Fear is a powerful emotion and neuroscientists have for the first time located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain.
UW CFD wins national award from EarthShare
The UW Combined Fund Drive has been presented with EarthShare’s 2008 National Campaign Award for Excellence as the outstanding public sector workplace giving campaign in the nation.
FEMA grant funds facelift for collections storage at the Burke Museum
The Burke Museum will be renovating its collection storage areas over the next two years, moving items from open shelves to new storage compactors that protect them from light and dust and possible damage from earthquakes.
UW Bothell to offer student housing in the fall
Beginning this fall, UW Bothell will offer student housing for the first time.
Newsmakers
BORDERLINE BLUES: The New York Times visited the topic of borderline personality disorder in a recent article, and quoted UW Psychology Professor Marsha Linehan.
A century after the AYPE’s cross-country race, old Model Ts are on the road again
On June 23, 1909, the first automobile of six entrants crossed the finish line on the UW campus after an “ocean to ocean endurance contest.
Child with autism triggers greater parental stress than one with developmental delay, study shows
Ask any mother and she’ll tell you that raising a preschooler is no easy task.
Olde-Time Picnic in the Arboretum
Seattle Parks & Recreation, the UW Botanic Gardens, and the Arboretum Foundation will host an old-fashioned picnic on Saturday, July 18, from 11:30 a.
Baillie and McCune accept professional pharmacy honors
Got ear plugs? You may want to sport them on the subway, researchers say
By Mary Guiden
News & Community Relations
Seattle doesn’t have a subway, but that doesn’t stop research scientist Rick Neitzel from doing his work.
Airlift Northwest adds extra summer services to San Juan Islands
By Clare Hagerty & Susan Gregg-Hanson
News & Community Relations
Airlift Northwest (ALNW) will again base one of it helicopters at the Friday Harbor airport this summer to expedite emergency services for residents and visitors in the San Juan Islands.
UW Medicine Eye Institute opens at Ninth and Jefferson Building
The UW Medicine Eye Institute officially opened last week.
UW back pain program provides relief, hope
Back pain affects an estimated 8 in 10 people, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Diets bad for teeth are also bad for the body
Dental disease may be a wake-up call that your diet is harming your body.
July 8, 2009
Mothers of children with autism have higher parental stress, psychological distress
Ask any mother and she’ll tell you that raising a preschooler is no easy task.
July 7, 2009
Media advisory: University of Washington clinic hosts ‘Kruzin’ Kent’ kids
WHO: Kent elementary school students, UW Medicine physicians and UW Medical Center dietitian Diane Javelli
WHAT: UW Medicine Kent/Des Moines clinic is taking part in a <A href="www.
July 6, 2009
Finding fear: Neuroscientists locate where it is processed in mammalian brain
Fear is a powerful emotion and neuroscientists have for the first time located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain.
July 2, 2009
Survival rates for elderly patients receiving in-hospital resuscitation did not improve from 1992 to 2005
A study of elderly patients receiving CPR in the hospital shows that rates of survival did not improve from 1992 to 2005.
June 30, 2009
Earth’s most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward
The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of a warmer world, according to research published in the July issue of Nature Geoscience.
Stirred, not shaken: Bio-inspired cilia mix medical reagents at small scales
The equipment used for biomedical research is shrinking, but the physical properties of the fluids under investigation are not changing.
June 29, 2009
Straighten up and fly right: Moths benefit more from flexible wings than rigid
New research shows that, at least for some insects, wings that flex and deform, something like what happens to a heavy beach towel when you snap it to get rid of the sand, are the best for staying aloft.
June 26, 2009
Media advisory: Aquatic robots, autonomous planes at UW robotics conference
WHAT: <A href="http://www.
June 25, 2009
Summer Sounds series gets under way July 2
Enjoy live music with your art this summer when the Henry Art Gallery and the UW School of Music present “Summer Sounds at the Henry.
Hall Health launches building renovation Web site
Hall Health Primary Care Center at the UW has launched a Web site to facilitate communication with the UW community about its building renovation project, providing updates and news about the progress of the renovation as they become available.
Moving day: Cunningham Hall, Johnson Hall Annex emptied to make way for new Molecular Engineering Building
Occupants of Cunningham Hall and Johnson Hall Annex are moving out this month, and Cunningham itself will be moving later this summer to make way for the new Molecular Engineering Building on the site.
Units concerned with Earth and natural sciences, policy, climate change among those joining new College of the Environment
A college, three schools and departments, several centers and programs, and an institute will be combined July 1 as the inaugural units of the UW’s College of the Environment.
UW Libraries offers AYPE Exhibit tours
The public is invited to attend tours of the UW Libraries exhibit The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: When the World Came to Campus, led by Carla Rickerson, exhibit curator and head of Special Collections Public Services.
Study supports validity of test that indicates widespread unconscious bias
In the decade since the Implicit Association Test was introduced, its most surprising and controversial finding is its indication that about 70 percent of those who took a version of the test that measures racial attitudes have an unconscious, or implicit, preference for white people compared to blacks.
Official notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, July 16, at 9 a.
Etc: Campus news & notes
Charles Johnson, who holds the S.
Lost and found films: Can you help UW Libraries learn more about these vintage screen gems?
You can almost hear the old-style projectors rattle along as you view these vintage films.
Genome Sciences hosts public lecture series in July
The UW Department of Genome Sciences will present its summer public lecture series, Wednesday Evenings at the Genome, in July.
Sports Concussion Program to open at Harborview and Seattle Children’s
Steve Butler & Susan Gregg-Hanson
News & Community Relations
In October 2006, Zackery Lystedt, 13, suffered a traumatic brain injury after making a tackle at the very end of the first half of a middle-school football game.
UW Medical Center attains 500 for heart, lung transplants
UW leaders, surgeons, physicians, social workers and other staff celebrated two recent transplant patients Tuesday, June 9, at a press conference.
Harborview named lead center for brain injury project in state
Harborview Medical Center in Seattle has been named the State Lead Center for Washington as part of a national network of health care institutions in one of the largest collaborative efforts in the history of pediatric medicine.
Hall Health wins Qualis Health Award of Excellence
By Steve Butler
News & Community Relations
Doing more with less seems to be the mantra of the day, and few in health care do that as well as the Hall Health Primary Care Center on the UW campus.